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Cops Hunt 'Furtive' Man in Times Square Video

Suspect shown changing shirts near car bomb site

(Newser) - Police released a Times Square surveillance video today of a "furtive" white man in his 40s spotted near an SUV car bomb stripping down apparently to change his appearance. A tourist may also have video of the same man "lunging" away from the SUV, reports the New York ...

Video Aids NYPD Manhunt
 Video Aids NYPD Manhunt 
times square car bomb
May 2, 2010 5:10 PM CDT

Video Aids NYPD Manhunt

Surveillance tapes help probe of failed Times Square car bomb

(Newser) - Clues continue to emerge in last night's failed Times Square car bombing , with surveillance video showing a 40-something white man leaving the scene. The owner of the explosives-packed Nissan Pathfinder has been identified but not named publicly, reports the New York Times . "In my judgment, it would have caused...

Pakistani Taliban Claims Times Square Car Bomb

Law enforcement skeptical but alert level remains high

(Newser) - The Pakistani Taliban says the failed Times Square car bomb was the work of its operatives, but officials investigating the incident are dubious, reports the Daily News . The terrorist group has a history of claiming credit for incidents it had nothing to do with, and initial investigation results suggest "...

T-Shirt Vendor Emerges as Hero

Vietnam veteran doesn't want to make a big deal of it

(Newser) - The T-shirt vendor who alerted a New York City cop to a potential car bomb wasn't much interested in talking to reporters this morning. He just wanted to catch a cab home, reports the New York Times . “I’m not going to say anything," said the still unidentified...

Car Bomb Scares Times Square, Fails to Explode

Smoking vehicle with crude bomb doesn't detonate

(Newser) - Police found an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb that began to detonate last night but failed to explode in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square. Thousands of tourists were cleared from the streets for 10 hours while the bomb was dismantled. "We avoided what could have...

Artist Gives NYC's Subway Riders a Lesson in Manners
Artist Gives NYC's Subway Riders a Lesson in Manners
no nail clipping, groping
Apr 21, 2010 10:13 AM CDT

Artist Gives NYC's Subway Riders a Lesson in Manners

Poster blitz also targets seat hogs, litterers

(Newser) - Call him the 21st-century Emily Post: Artist Jason Shelowitz is out to teach New York City subway riders that groping, sneezing, preaching, and littering is totally uncool. Shelowitz quizzed passengers on their pet peeves and made the top 10 into pretty humorous posters in the style of the transit authority's...

12 Mobsters Busted in Gambino Raid
12 Mobsters Busted in Gambino Raid
Apr 21, 2010 2:00 AM CDT

12 Mobsters Busted in Gambino Raid

Selling teen sex a 'new low' for crime family: fed

(Newser) - New York City's Gambino crime family reached a "new low" with the trafficking of a minor to have sex with high-stakes poker players, a US attorney said yesterday as he announced charges against 14 alleged mobsters. Twelve of them are already in custody. Other charges include loansharking, drug trafficking,...

New York Carriage Horses Get Raises, 5-Week Vacations

Horses now entitled to vacation

(Newser) - New York’s city council took a stand yesterday for some of the city’s most put-upon, working-class schlubs: the horses who schlep carriages through Central Park. From now on, those unfortunate beasts are entitled to five weeks of vacation outside the city every year, the New York Post reports....

Holder: Terror Trials Still Possible in NYC

He also says he hopes the US captures Osama alive

(Newser) - Turns out the debate on holding terror trials in New York City isn't settled after all. Attorney General Eric Holder told a Senate panel today that "New York isn't off the table"—even though the Obama administration said as much earlier this year when Mayor Bloomberg and others...

50 Best Places to Live in New York
 50 Best Places 
 to Live in New York 
Nate Silver
Apr 12, 2010 12:23 PM CDT

50 Best Places to Live in New York

Number cruncher devises elaborate system to rate neighborhoods on satisfaction

(Newser) - If you live in New York, the fact that Nate Silver has concluded that Park Slope is the most "satisfying" neighborhood in the city is hot stuff—especially if you own real estate in Park Slope. But if you don't, what's pretty hot is the methodology the numbers genius...

Artist Aims to Draw Every Person In New York

Jason Polan populates blog with 2-minute sketches

(Newser) - Drawing the millions who populate the Big Apple might seem like quite the task, but artist Jason Polan is up for it. He’s been at it since 2008, and posting each day’s 2-minute sketches on a blog, Every Person in New York . He’s even left his email...

New Rangel Challenge From Adam Clayton Powell IV
 New Rangel Challenge From 
 Adam Clayton Powell IV 

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON
Apr 8, 2010 11:09 AM CDT

New Rangel Challenge From Adam Clayton Powell IV

NY lawmaker aims to take back seat Rangel took from dad

(Newser) - In a twist of fate, New York lawmaker Adam Clayton Powell IV will use Charlie Rangel’s ethics problems against him in an upcoming House Democratic primary, much as Rangel used similar allegations against Powell’s father to unseat him in 1970. But Powell’s decision to mount a challenge...

NYC Shops Busted for Peddling Weed
 NYC Shops Busted 
 for Peddling Weed 
POT DU JOUR
Apr 7, 2010 10:50 AM CDT

NYC Shops Busted for Peddling Weed

Six stores raided, employees arrested for 'drug bazaar'

(Newser) - Cops raided six Brooklyn businesses yesterday and say they found something not exactly on the specials list: marijuana. “At lunch it turned into a veritable pot-luck event,” the police commissioner says of one restaurant. “You could go in and get drugs in the food itself or go...

Hero Frenchie Who Saved Tot: Anyone Would Do It

'Emotion took over,' says Julien Duret

(Newser) - A hero Frenchman who plunged into the frigid waters of Manhattan's East River to save a drowning toddler said anyone would have done the same. "Emotion took over. I reacted very fast," Julien Duret, 29, told the New York Daily News , who tracked him to Lyon, France, after...

NY Ads Crack Down on Saggy Pants

Pull 'em up, says disgusted Brooklyn senator

(Newser) - A Brooklyn politician has launched a billboard ad campaign slamming the growing cheekiness of saggy pants. "We're better than this!" screams the ads that urge residents to "Stop the Sag." The billboards feature photos of the backsides of two young men with pants so low that...

Man Leaps to Death From Empire State Building

Body shattered, sneakers scattered

(Newser) - A 21-year-old man scaled a 10-foot-high fence on the observation deck of the Empires State Building last evening and thudded to the ground 86 floors below in front of horrified onlookers. "It was an explosion," a witness told the New York Daily News . "His body was shattered...

World's Most Photographed Landmarks
 World's Most 
 Photographed 
 Landmarks 
no. 28: nyc apple store
Mar 28, 2010 8:33 AM CDT

World's Most Photographed Landmarks

Guess what comes in ahead of the Statue of Liberty?

(Newser) - Quick, what would you rather take a picture of on a trip to New York: the Statue of Liberty or the Apple store? Turns out most people would choose the Apple store—at least if we’re talking about the one on Fifth Avenue with a nifty-looking cube atop it....

Queens Granny Opens Fire on Jazzman's Wife

81-year-old snaps over noise coming from Palmieri apartment

(Newser) - Maria Cartagena proved you don’t have to be young to be armed and dangerous Tuesday when, according to police, the 81-year-old tried to shoot the elderly woman living upstairs. Seventy-three year old Iraida Palmieri, wife of Grammy-winning jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri, says Cartagena confronted her in the elevator saying,...

Top Tax-Procrastination Cities
 Top Tax-Procrastination Cities 
Mar 22, 2010 10:03 PM CDT

Top Tax-Procrastination Cities

Houston takes over No. 1 spot, TurboTax says

(Newser) - Your taxes are due April 15, and TurboTa x says it has a pretty good idea of who’s going to file late. Herewith, its list of US cities most likely to procrastinate:
  1. Houston (up from No. 2)
  2. Chicago (up from 4)
  3. New York (holding steady)
  4. Austin (a big jump,
...

Judge Nixes $657M Ground Zero Deal, Wants More Talks

Fears sum won't be enough, and lawyers get too much

(Newser) - A federal judge put the kibosh today on New York City’s deal to set aside as much as $657 million for 10,000 workers sickened by toxic debris at the World Trade Center site. Alvin Hellerstein thinks it’s not enough money, would leave out other first responders to...

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